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5 lettersPronunciation /slɪŋk/Part of speech verbSorted iklnsStarts with SEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. walk stealthily

Word origin

From Middle English slynken, sclynken, from Old English slincan (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Germanic *slinkaną (“to creep; crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleng-, *slenk- (“to turn; wind; twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak; crawl”).

Used in a sentence

  • Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
  • The leaving us was just a feint; / Back here to London did he slink, / And now works on without a wink / Of sleep, and we are on the brink
  • Joseph Poorgrass, in the background, twitched, and his lips became dry with fear of some terrible consequences as he saw Bathsheba summarily speaking, and Henery slinking off to a corner.

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